Qian Qianli name change

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Qian Qianli name change

Postby yukabacera » Wed May 12, 2021 12:33 am

https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng

His Chinese name is currently 錢千裡. I imagine this is due to the fact he was added via a Mainland movie that uses simplified characters in the credits, and the editor assumed the 里 in his name was the 里 that is the simplified form of 裡, but he was regularly credited as 錢千里 before simplified characters were introduced. I've added 'as-credited' tags to the Chinese role names I could verify to support this. Any objections to changing his name to 錢千里?
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Re: Qian Qianli name change

Postby bkasten » Tue Nov 09, 2021 4:02 pm

Nice find. I have changed the primary name and removed the alias, but have left in place the Big5 credited-as annotations (for now). And I actually uncovered a bug that was preventing this from being updated as well.
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Re: Qian Qianli name change

Postby yukabacera » Wed May 04, 2022 10:48 pm

Zheng Junli has the same issue.
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Re: Qian Qianli name change

Postby bkasten » Wed May 04, 2022 10:57 pm

Updated. Nice find.
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Re: Qian Qianli name change

Postby yukabacera » Sun May 22, 2022 7:21 am

Richard Poh (Bu Wancang) as well. I'm pretty sure 蔔 is not a real family name. 卜 is correct.
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